Race, Achievement, and Delinquency: A Further Look at Delinquency in a Birth Cohort

Jensen, Gary F.

American Journal of Sociology, 82, 2, 379-87, Sep 76

This paper critiques Wolfgang, Figlio, and Sellin's "Delinquency in a Birth Cohort," (1972) which is the analysis of the recorded delinquent careers of a cohort of nearly 10,000 boys in Philadelphia, by outlining the consequences of an inadequate and cursory use of tabular analysis. (Author/RM)